High bit-rate optical soliton communication

Author

Andrekson, Peter A. ; Olsson, N. Anders

Author_Institution

AT&T Bell Lab., Murray Hill, NJ, USA

fYear

1992

Firstpage

1880

Abstract

Recent high-speed optical soliton communication experiments that utilize diode laser pumped erbium-doped fiber amplifiers and dispersion-shifted transmission fiber are discussed. The experiments include wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) soliton transmission over trans-Pacific distances, and single-channel, 32-Gb/s transmission over 90 km. At such high speeds, conventional techniques are presently not capable of extracting the data. All-optical techniques capable of retrieving ultra-high-speed (>64-Gb/s) data are therefore also discussed. In addition, some limits for WDM and ultra-high-speed soliton communications are addressed

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; optical fibres; optical links; optical solitons; wavelength division multiplexing; 32 Gbit/s; 90 km; WDM; all-optical techniques; diode laser pumped amplifiers; dispersion-shifted transmission fiber; erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; experiments; high-speed optical soliton communication; trans-Pacific distances; Data mining; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical pulses; Optical solitons; Pulse amplifiers; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 1992. Conference Record., GLOBECOM '92. Communication for Global Users., IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0608-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1992.276708

Filename

276708